Natural sensory learning
Bringing it to you
Location
Bring the expert educators from Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre to your school for an exciting, hands-on incursion.
Our qualified teachers will guide students in exploring natural bush resources, feeling different taxidermy animals and listening to a variety of bird sounds in their own school grounds, fostering curiosity and discovery right where they learn every day.
Overview
- Feeling the different textures of the taxidermy animals - echidna, possum, wombat, snake, shingleback lizard
- Bush resources - possum pelts, kangaroo pelts, banksia cones, banksia flower, lomandra leaves
- Bugs and invertebrates - glass bugs, optional to go outside and use bug catches
- Play animal sounds - play birds sounds and try to identify the bird
Outcomes
- Earth's environment GE2-1, GE2-4
- Living word- living things STe-3LW-ST
Key Inquiry questions
- How do things change as they grow?
Students will
- feel and touch different taxidermy animals
- explore bush resources
- feel and examine bugs and invertebrates
- hear a variety of bird sounds
Learning across the curriculum content:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Sustainability
- Literacy and Numeracy
- Critical and creative thinking
